Quotes About Improving Education

#1. The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.

Ken Robinson

#2. As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

Michael F. Easley

#3. Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

B.F. Skinner

#4. I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

Jim Breyer

#5. We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

Dan Lipinski

#6. Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.

Dennis Garlick

#7. Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

Caitlin Moran

#8. To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies.

Ron Fournier

#9. We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.

Debasish Mridha

#10. If you can't laugh at your life, then your life is a punchline in a bad joke.

Andrew Barger

#11. Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Pierre Bourdieu

#12. I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

William Glasser

#13. We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.

Leila Janah

#14. I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

Ariana Grande

#15. President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

Juan Williams

#16. Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

Vincent Frank

#17. Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Ron Lewis

#18. You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Andreas Schleicher

#19. As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

John F. Kerry

#20. Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Roger Moore

#21. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman

#22. As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

Naveen Jain

#23. If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

Wendy Kopp

#24. Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.

Mark Takano

#25. Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Gunnar Myrdal

#26. I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.

Matthew Stewart